Universal Service Report & Order: Appendix M

FCC 97-157

Appendix M (Future Proceedings)

APPENDIX M
FUTURE PROCEEDINGS

Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, on forward-looking economic cost mechanisms for non-rural carriers; local usage; support of single and multiple connections; and competitive bidding (by June 1997).
Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, selecting forward-looking economic cost model as platform for methodology for non-rural carriers, and seeking comments on that selection and input values (by end of 1997).
Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, on whether modifications to the Commission's low-income programs are necessary to account for the presubscribed interexchange carrier charge adopted in the Access Reform Order (by end of 1997).
Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, on forward-looking cost mechanisms for rural carriers (by October 1998).
Joint Board, to convene task force on forward-looking economic cost mechanisms for rural carriers.
Public Notice, on infrastructure deployment for service to rural health care providers; rural health care needs in insular areas; and subscribership in insular areas.
Reconvene Federal-State Joint Board on Universal Service, to examine implementation of section 254, including the definition and scope of supported services (2001).